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15-letter words containing m, a, n, g, e, d

  • glycaemic index — an index indicating the effects of various foods on blood sugar. Fast-releasing foods that raise blood sugar levels quickly are high on the index, while slow-releasing foods, at the bottom of the index, give a slow but sustained release of sugar
  • golden nematode — a yellowish nematode, Heterodera rostochiensis, that is parasitic on the roots of potatoes, tomatoes, and other solanaceous plants.
  • golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • gotterdammerung — German Mythology. the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with evil powers: erroneous modern translation of the Old Icelandic Ragnarǫk, meaning “fate of the gods,” misunderstood as Ragnarökkr, meaning “twilight of the gods.”.
  • guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
  • guru meditation — (operating system)   The Amiga equivalent of Unix's panic (sometimes just called a "guru" or "guru event"). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. In the earliest days of the Amiga, there was a device called a "Joyboard" which was basically a plastic board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would concentrate on a solution while sitting cross-legged, balanced on a Joyboard, resembling a meditating guru. Sadly, the joke was removed in AmigaOS 2.04. The Jargon File claimed that a guru event had to be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch but, according to a correspondent, a mouse click was enough to start a reboot.
  • hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
  • homing guidance — a method of missile guidance in which internal equipment enables it to steer itself onto the target, as by sensing the target's heat radiation
  • integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
  • laminated glass — Laminated glass is safety glass in which a transparent plastic film is placed between plates of glass.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • mackinac bridge — a suspension bridge over the Straits of Mackinac, connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan: one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. 3800-foot (1158-meter) center span; 7400 feet (2256 meters) in total length.
  • madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
  • magna cum laude — with great praise: used in diplomas to grant the next-to-highest of three special honors for grades above the average.
  • magnesium oxide — magnesia.
  • magnetic domain — a portion of a ferromagnetic material where the magnetic moments are aligned with one another because of interactions between molecules or atoms.
  • magnetic needle — a slender magnetized steel rod that, when adjusted to swing in a horizontal plane, as in a compass, indicates the direction of the earth's magnetic fields or the approximate position of north and south.
  • mailing address — postal or delivery address
  • managed economy — an economy in which the government allocates prices of goods and resources
  • managing editor — an editor assigned to the supervision and coordination of certain editorial activities of a newspaper, magazine, book publishing company, or the like. Abbreviation: M.E., m.e.
  • mandarin orange — mandarin (def 4).
  • manganese oxide — a type of metallic oxide used to colour glass purple
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
  • mid-ocean ridge — any of several seismically active submarine mountain ranges that extend through the Atlantic, Indian, and South Pacific oceans: each is hypothesized to be the locus of seafloor spreading.
  • midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
  • mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
  • misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
  • modern language — one of the literary languages currently in use in Europe, as French, Spanish, or German, treated as a departmental course of study in a school, college, or university.
  • monchengladbach — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
  • mortgage lender — a financial institution which provides money to borrowers for mortgages
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • nonjudgmentally — not judged or judging on the basis of one's personal standards or opinions: They tried to adopt a nonjudgmental attitude that didn't reflect their own biases. My guidance counselor in high school was sympathetic and nonjudgmental.
  • not give a damn — If you say that someone does not give a damn about something, you are emphasizing that they do not care about it at all.
  • old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
  • orange chromide — an Asian cichlid fish, Etropus maculatus, with a brownish-orange spotted body
  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • orangeman's day — the 12th of July, celebrated by Protestants in Northern Ireland to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne (1690)
  • orangemen's day — July 12, an annual celebration in Northern Ireland and certain cities having a large Irish section, especially Liverpool, to mark both the victory of William III over James II at the Battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690, and the Battle of Augbrim, July 12, 1690.
  • organized crime — illegal activities co-ordinated by groups
  • overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
  • powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
  • product manager — sb who oversees product development
  • pyramid selling — Pyramid selling is a method of selling in which one person buys a supply of a particular product direct from the manufacturer and then sells it to a number of other people at an increased price. These people sell it on to others in a similar way, but eventually the final buyers are only able to sell the product for less than they paid for it.
  • radiogoniometer — a device used to detect the direction of radio waves, consisting of a coil that is free to rotate within two fixed coils at right angles to each other
  • radiogoniometry — the science of detecting the direction of radio waves
  • regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
  • registered name — the official or trademark name of something such as a product or company
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • routeing domain — (networking)   (US "routing") A set of routers that exchange routeing information within an administrative domain.
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